Look, idk whether anything will deter WVU’s leaders from their path. But the camaraderie last night at 123 Pleasant Street was beautiful.❤️ Faculty & staff chatted abt research, students abt fav classes & future. All agreed this process is too rushed & will damage WV & WVU for decades.

Idk who needs to see this, but… WV is a 1-party consent state for audio recordings. If you intend on recording a convo, at least 1 person in convo must consent for the recording to be legal. If you're a participant in a convo, you can be that 1 person. This incl meetings…

LAST day to register! Appalachian Storytelling EdKarshner 🥶 Meagan Lucas Meagan Lucas, Sarah Rose, Natalie Sypolt Appalachia has a long tradition of storytelling, honest and sometimes gritty tales, pulled from soil, and memory, and soul. #WritingCommunity lityoungstown.org/2023-festival-…

Here’s the announcement from #wvu re: the next round of appeal. Don’t let front loaded good news fool you-this is brutal news for pretty much every dept. They’re hoping we take these morsels & stop causing a fuss, while they dismantle & overwork staff. wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2023/0…

If you’re an alumni of WVU, please consider taking the #donegiving pledge!

The condescension in the WVU General Counsel’s voice after a faculty member asks a reasonable question about people losing their jobs is so gross.

The itineraries for these privately chartered flights are absolutely littered with single-passenger flights (typically Gee or Alsop) from Morgantown to Charleston (a simple 2hr drive) ... with themselves approving their own travel. Many millions gone just in MGW–CRW–MGW flights.

Well, I've had quite the weekend! Started on Thursday RMU English and Media Arts as MC for a fantastic evening of lit & conversation w/ Meagan Lucas Jolene McIlwain is in the woods 🦌🦉🐿️ @jodydiperna & friends. Ended Lit Youngstown w/ a craft talk & reading with Robert Morris University pals & Natalie Sypolt ! Wow!

Had a lovely time at a Youngstown Lit Festival this weekend! Lit Youngstown In addition to this awesome reading with Ed, Natalie, and Sarah Rose, I also did an AMA about Lit Mag editing that was really fun.

Fairmont! Headed your way next month! Come out, come out, come out! pierpont.edu/news/pierpont-…

Please share widely with all your friends, students, and colleagues. We’d love to get a big crowd for Neema (and for our first time bringing a writer to the Pierpont campus)!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the annual RUNE literary magazine release! Your support and enthusiasm made it a memorable evening as we celebrated 14 years of showcasing incredible talent from both professional and student authors.

I’ll leave the debate rating to the pundits, but here’s what I know: facts and history matter. Joe Biden has given us 3 years of solid leadership, steadying us after the pandemic, creating a record number of new jobs, making real progress solving the climate crisis, and launching

And check out the fiction from WVU Press including Deesha Philyaw Natalie Sypolt Val Nieman, Mark Powell, me, & many others: wvupressonline.com/books/fiction?…

I unlocked $45 Rush tickets for Illinoise on Broadway on TodayTix! todaytix.com/nyc/shows/3890…

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At a time when acceptance was hard to find for LGBTQ+ students, Tim Walz knew the signal it would send for a football coach to get involved in the Gay Straight Alliance. So he signed on to be the group’s faculty advisor.

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Yes. We have a major constitutional crisis. Americans did not fight and die to protect democracy so that the richest man in the world could single-handedly dismantle agencies that protect workers, consumers & children. Together, we can and will defeat Trump’s authoritarianism.